title: Primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma involving the left pulmonary vein presenting as a left atrial tumor.
abstract: A 35-year-old woman presented with 4 months history of progressively increasing intermittent dyspnea and hemoptysis. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a loculated mass in the left atrium (LA). A provisional diagnosis of LA myxoma was made. Intraoperatively the tumor was found extending into and closely adherent to the left pulmonary vein and could not be completely cleared off from the pulmonary venous wall. The histopathological examination of the tumor revealed it to be a myxoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Medical Superspecialty Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Saikat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.forename: Sunip
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: Abhijit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Ratan Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Das
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000473:pathology*; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D051677:Histiocytoma, Malignant Fibrous; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma / Q000473:pathology*; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*